everywhere I look, folks are overcomplicating their infra setups for very little benefit :L
i’m yearning for the raw experience of manually maintaining servers, instead of (metaphorically) putting on nitrile gloves to remote-control a robot that will “do it for you”
the moment you need to do incident response, and you push your nix/ansible/salt thingimajigs aside because something went DOWN, and you need to bring it back up ASAP… every time I see this, I feel like the theater curtain fell down, together with the stage lights. For a moment you’re no longer pretending, you’re just using SSH. And you bring the thing up manually, because that’s the fastest way to do it.
